First, the big picture:
Romania’s biggest effort in 2025 is to lower the budget deficit by 1.8% of GDP as key sectors of the economy are grounded, but it will be a purely technical matter: no one would have questioned 5-10 years ago that the energy needed to advance and sophisticate the economy would be spent at some point to keep on the table Romania’s model of society and Western alliances.

Now we have to review the subject of Western market capitalism, and the first results of this test that has just begun are as follows:

1, On December 23, Ciolacu government was voted by the Parliament with only 7 votes difference, even if it had the support of the two mainstream parties, the hungarian party and the group of minorities.
This means – leaving aside the small USR group – that in addition to the 35% that represents the chairs of AUR-SOS-POT (i.e. Simion-Georgescu-Șoșoaca), the anti-Western part of social-democrats (PSD) is larger than one might suspect. A mere whiff of wind in the party will blow all government support in the other direction.

Continuarea, aici.